J. M. Frost - 1916
Dr. Henry M. King, in Baptist World, Nov. 4, 1915.
"How beautifully significant is baptism as it was appointed by the divine Founder of Christianity and enjoined upon all of his disciples! 'Go ye into all the world, disciple. all nations, baptizing them.' It is the symbol of the most sacred truths, the condensed biography of the redeeming Son of God, the Gospel in miniature, the record of the deepest human experience, the silent utterance of saving faith, the soul's consecration to a new life, the epitome of God's revealed will to men, the proclamation of cleansing grace to a sin-stained world, the most eloquent sermon that was ever preached.
"If the minister is humbly conscious of his inability to express the glorious Gospel of the blessed God in words, he did express it when he himself was baptized, and he has expressed it at the baptism of every happy convert. When we consider its fullness of meaning, its divine appointment, its first recipient in the waters of the Jordan that he might fulfill all righteousness and foreshadow his overwhelming baptism of suffering, how carefully should baptism always be administered-with what reverent hands, with what prayerful spirit, with what solemn stillness, as if in the presence of the descending Dove in momentary expectation of the Father's approving voice."